Research a variety of media (print, broadcast, social, blogs, film, TV, etc.), taking gender, race, and class into consideration: What kinds of messages are reinforced through media portrayals of women? Who do you find is responsible for these images, and why?
What does media do to hurt how women's bodies/sexuality are viewed (e.g. through violence to trans/women, in video games like Grand Theft Auto, Lara Croft, etc., in depictions of video vixens, in advertising, etc.)?
Alternatively, what is media doing to help combat the negative consequences of these views towards women?
Use examples from the readings, films, video clips studied in class, and include additional research/personal experience.
Provide citations of at least 2 readings in the course or from your own research.
- Essays must be in standard essay form: introduction; body of essay with ideas in each paragraph building on the previous one, and finally, concluding paragraph).
- Essays must be typed (Font #12); double-spaced, with in-text citations, as well as a Works Cited page (MLA, Chicago, or APA style). Access MLA Citation Guides
- Essay will be at least four (4) pages or 1200 words.
- In addition to your ideas, evaluation of your response paper will be based on references to articles, films/documentaries studied in class, as well as your own research.